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1541-III JiffyDOS | Jsaily released JiffyDOS for the 1541-III. Jsaily has been working on it for a couple of weeks with the help of Jan Derogee, Unseen and 1570. There is now a beta-version available for testing, and if you find a bug please send in a bug report.

FatMan and Circuit Girl | If you want to know what Jeri Ellsworth (Circuit Girl) is doing these days take a look at her web page. Together with George Sanger (FatMan) they make videos about all kinds of electronic stuff they develop. Take a look at Jeri's Flip-Wristwatch. It looks good, but it's not very practical.

Commodore Free #29 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following articles: News, Outro 2 End of the Beginning, Business Calculator, Listing of BIZCALC, Reader Information, Interview with Spiro Trikaliotis, Complete history of Lemmings, Retro Vision 2009, The rise and fall of the pulput BBS, MossyCon5 Report.

Commodore Free #28 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following articles: News, Megabit128, Simon Querhorst Cartridge, ByteBack review, Readers Code(c16/plus4), AATIMER.PRG, In the beginning, Evolution of FORTH and the Forth Interest Group.

MMC2IEC / SD2IEC | This German-language web page gives a complete overview of the MMC2IEC and SD2IEC devices. These devices are a replacement for the IEC disk drive and store the data on a memory card instead of a diskette.

XS-1541 | A new interface cable is developed for the Commodore disk drives. Besides the IEC disk drives (1541) this cable also supports the parallel IEEE-488 bus (8050). The XS-1541 is connected to the serial or USB interface of a PC. All commands are send with a terminal program on the PC. You can use any operating system (Linux, Amiga, Windows, DOS) as long you can use a terminal program.

OmniFlop | OmniFlop is a 'universal' floppy disk reader, writer, and tester for the PC which can handle floppy disk formats not normally supported by DOS, Windows and Linux. With OmniFlop it is possible to read and write Commodore 1581 diskettes. Omniflop can read more than 100 other floppy formats like: CMD FDD, Atari ST, Tandy CoCo, etc. The program is available for Windows from NT to Vista. Also a version for MS-DOS and Win-95 is available (OmniDisk).

RetrObright | A major problem with collecting old computers is that the computers get yellow. Many people tried to remove the yellow but without success. Last year a solution was found. The colouring can be removed with a mix of chemicals. Take a look at the web page for the details and examples.

New uIEC firmware. | Jim Brain released new firmware for his uIEC. The uIEC is a very small replacement for a Commodore IEC disk drive. In this version: Drive mapper, EXOS V3 fastloader support, Dreamload emulation, Copy command, Final Cartridge 3 freezed file fastloader support, D71/D81 support, Partial REL file support and more.

Commodore Free #27 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following articles: News. RGCD Kickstart 16 cartridge. Interviews with: Cincinati Commodore Computer Club, Simon Quernhorst and Simon Owen. GFX and bigger screen on the vic 20. Understanding the Vic 20 ram expansion. Comments from: Shaun, Nigel and Peter. In the beginning Part 12.

SEUCK Vault | The Seuck vault has 6 new entries. For the Amiga two new games are added: Piequest and Lost Treasure. Both games were made by Ricky Derocher. And for the C64 there are 4 new games: Imaginator v3 by Richard Bayliss, Legion of the Damned by Anthony Burns, R-Type Reverse and Renevator both by Simon Peterson. All the games can be downloaded from the web page.

Commodore Free #26 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following articles: News, Tap file creation, Interviews with: Tom Rogers, Shaun Mc Manus and Robert Hurst. The Brain Micro µIEC, Mossycon5, In the beginning 10, On the Road by Robert Bernardo, DCN-2692 Floppy Controller, Robert Hurst Programmer's Delight and the Quikman Source code.

Retro Action Magazine #1 | There is a new English pdf magazine about retro games. The first edition is 62 pages and has the following item: Retro remakes, Retro respect, Zenobi software, Reviews, DOS-box, AMsoft and much more. The magazine can be downloaded from the Retro Action web page.

xum1541 | Nate Lawson is working on a X1541 cable that has a USB connection. With the xum1541 and the OpenCBM software it is possible to transfer data to and from a 1541 disk drive and a modern PC. It supports high-speed parallel cables, so you can use nibtools and make low-level images from a diskette. The xum1541 is based on a Atmel developers board and a small pcb for connecting the 1541 disk drive.

DLH's Commodore Archive | David Haynes made a web page for his Commodore documentation. You can find here: magazines, advertisements, manuals of hardware and games. You can download the files as pdf. The very large files must be downloaded with Bittorrent.

VICE v2.1 | A new version of VICE, the Commodore 8-bit emulator, is available. The most important change is that now the C64 DTV is supported.
C64 changes: Added isepic and Double Quick Brown Box cartridge emulation.
VIC20 changes: Improved the sound and VIC emulation.
C64DTV changes: New emulator.
Unix changes: PAL Emulation fixed and improved. MIDI cartridge emulation for x128, x64 and xvic. MS-Windows changes: MIDI cartridge emulation for x128, x64 and xvic. RS232 can use real devices now.

cpm8680.com | www.cpm8680.com is a web page for the users of the operating system CP/M (Control Program for Microcomputers). CP/M can be used by many computers. The Commodore C128 can use CP/M and the C64 can use CP/M via a cartridge. If you want to learn more about CP/M visit the web page of Bill Buckels.

Retro Paper-craft | Marshall Alexander is a graphic designer and illustrator who spent his childhood drawing and programming games for his Commodore 64. He specializes in one-piece paper toys that consist of a single flat piece of paper, which by intricate folding is transformed into a 3-dimensional model. He also made a series of retro computers. You can download the paper-craft as a pdf file.

Commodore Free #25 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following articles: News. Super Cpu Information. Interview with Jeff Daniels. Programming Environment. In the beginning. The Sceptre of Baghdad Page. Questions about CCC U.k.

Commodore Free #24 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following articles: News. Readers comments. Interview with Raymond Bryan. In the Beginning Part 9. Hypersid Team. Raymond Computer store. LLAMASOFT The Dromedary Years part 2. Hypersid. PRESS PLAY ON TAPE.

Classic USB Joystick Controller | After the introduction of the USB Competition Pro another classic joystick is now available with a USB connection. This Atari style joystick can be used with many emulators on Windows, Apple Mac OSX and Linux. It even can be modded to have 10 additional fire buttons.

Commodore Free #23 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, d64 and html magazine the following articles: News. Interview with Arthur Jordison the creator of CBM 64 .prg Generator. Tutorial: Getting Started with DMC 5. DMC 5 Commands. In the Beginning Part 8. LLAMASOFT The Dromedary Years. Commodore 64 .prg Generator. Commodore Computer Club UK. All versions of the magazine can be downloaded from the web page.

64JPX - JoyPad eXpander | The 64JPX-JoyPad eXpander is a small interface that makes it possible to connect Sega MegaDrive/Genesis, Nintendo SNES/NES joypads, or other controllers to Commodore and Atari computers. It also provides a few extras such as: Auto-fire. Separate buttons for Racing games (acceleration and braking). Waddle modes for sports games. Creep mode / slow-motion. Take a look at the web page for all the possibilities.

Commodore Netbook 8010/F | Commodore has released a Netbook. This Netbook has the following specifications: 10 screen, C7-VIA processor running on 1.6 GHz, 1GB ram, 80GB HDD, WIFI, Bluetooth and a webcam. The operating system can be Linux or Windows XP. The prices in Europe will be between 399 and 449 Euro.

Commodore Free #22 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, html and d64 magazine the following items: News. uIEC Status Update and information. Tutorials: In the beginning part 7 and Making music with DMC. Interview with Stefano Tognon (SIDin) and more.

Aztec C museum | Bill Buckels made a web page that's about the Aztec C compiler. Aztec C is a programming language for a variety of platforms including MS-DOS, Apple II DOS 3.3 and PRoDOS, Commodore 64, Macintosh and Amiga. The purpose of this website is to provide a free internet archive for various versions of the Aztec C Compiler with documentation, source code and samples.

The ULTIMATE C64 Tape Page | This web page is dedicated to preserve cassette software. The cassette software is converted from a real cassette with a special cable to a .tap file. The .tap files can be used in the Emulators such as VICE. There are more than 1600 games available on this web page. You can also find a tutorial how to make you're own .tap files.

Commodore Free #21 | In this English pdf, txt, seq, d64 and html magazine the following: General Commodore News. Netracer game. Interviews with C64 Game Endings, Antonino Porcino and Erik Schubach. No Ending! Paper SX 64 model. Commodore Computer Club. In the beginning part 6. TND making music with DMC.

VICE 2.0 | VICE is a emulator for almost all 8-bit Commodore computers. It can be used on many platforms. Besides versions for Unix, Linux, MS-DOS, Win32, OS/2, Acorn RISC OS, BeOS, QNX 6.x, Amiga, GP2X, or Mac OS X there are now also versions for AROS64, QNX 4.x, HPUX, Atari Mint, Solaris Express and SkyOS. New features in version 2.0 are: More precise PAL emulation with double size and double scan. Action Replay 4, StarDos, NEOS and Amiga mouse support for the C64. Many bug fixes for all emulated computers. VICE can be downloaded from the VICE web page.

Image Outpost | Spriggly made a new web page that is dedicated to the BBS (Bulletin board system). Here you will find many resources related to the Commodore telnet BBS scene and the Commodore in general. There is a list with many BBSs and information about them. You will need a terminal program like CGTerm to use a BBS.

SX-64 for everyone | Erik Schubach made it possible that everybody can have his own Commodore SX-64. Take a look at his web page how you get your own SX-64.

Commodore Free #20 | In this English .pdf or .html magazine the following articles: Readers Comments, News, Commodore Scene get together, In the Beginning Part 5, TND Creating music with DMC, Extracting Text from Commodore applications using the Winvice Emulator, C64TCP Review, WE ARE FAMILY - plus 4 dvd, Interview with Paul, Dany Wild and Nightlord, www.commodore-plus4.co.uk.

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